Study of order effects in the search for information on the Web: the case of an experiment about smoking cessation techniques

This article deals with cognitive biases that could affect the judgment of net surfers while reading a list of answers, after a query in a search engine. The hypothesis is made that order effects i.e primacy and/or recency could be observed in such contexts. The authors choose to test it by doing an...

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Main Authors: Stéphane AMATO, Eric BOUTIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Etudes Scientifiques Spécialisées Appliquées aux Communications Humaines, Economiques, Sociales et Symboliques 2013-07-01
Series:Essachess
Subjects:
web
Online Access:http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/article/view/194/207